Here's what you are missing: Someone will leak the patches and they will end up on torrents or the like. People will be able to get these patches without paying for the extra support.
Never mind the issue of companies using illegally obtained patches they haven't paid a support agreement for (except for perhaps China who don't give a shit), there's also the security issue of obtaining patches from someone other than direct from the vendor. Such a great opportunity to slip in your own code to do interesting things along with the actual patches.
Put it another way - I'd prefer it if Windows Updates were perhaps more verbose, so I'd know what they're actually doing that's taking so long. For all I know an update is taking too long because it's timed out and failed (which has occasionally happened). At least with Linux the longer updates print a fair amount of messages explaining if they're updating a cache or something.
And on the rare chance that it doesn't calling the 800 number has always got me back in business.
It's kinda amazing how the idea having to call someone to basically beg for access to your operating system is seen as acceptable. People really are able to get used to any amount of bullshit it would seem, even if it's "rare". It's not as if it's necessary in the first place, what with Windows loaders being able to permanently activate anything up to and including Windows 8.1 with a single exe.
Depends on the hardware. In any case I've noticed that the.NET updates in Windows Update seem to always take the longest to complete out of all the various updates that can appear, so despite they hyperbole there is some truth to what he said.
Agreed. It's even worse when you realize just how many accessibility features exist in Windows - they've got almost everything, and you can expect them to work given there's high visibility of the operating system compared to most Linux distros. But of course people prefer to joke instead of accept the fact that Linux distros simply don't have the same level of support for accessibility features as seen in the proprietary systems, and that continual joking is why I don't bother with Linux for my own system anymore.
That might be a bonus side effect for Microsoft, but honestly, I think the primary purpose is to push for more Office 365 subscriptions. I mean it's pretty obvious, even my Microsoft's own reformation as a "devices and services" company in that they don't want to sell perpetually licensed software anymore. They want people to buy subscriptions now, and are pushing VERY hard for this. I wouldn't be surprised if the next main version of Office is subscription entirely like Adobe have done with their latest suite of software.
If people contribute money to something, of course they're gonna feel at least a bit entitled. Kickstarter is about investing your money into something that you feel is a good idea. Everyone will have their own values and priorities when investing. Some might not like the fact that Facebook is now going to own the company for various reasons which go against the reason they invested in the first place. Maybe they didn't want some big corp with no gaming focus owning the tech, who knows.
I have no personal investment one way or another. All I'm saying is that everyone has different reasons for wanting to invest, and it's understandable if someone who doesn't like Facebook sees a problem with them buying Oculus VR.
Bitocin? Must be some offshoot of Bitcoin. Or the editors failed to "edit" anything and just want to be paid for sitting around, jacking off and hitting submit occasionally.
The quality of and speed of it's voice recognition is impressive, though.
I actually use Google Speech for an application that I'm building. There's no official API for it, but what you can do is record speech to a FLAC file with specific parameters, pass said file to a particular URL via libcurl, and after a few seconds you'll get back info in JSON format which will provide the text of the recognition as well as a confidence level. It's really quite impressive.
The only downside of course is that if Google changes how its speech setup works, someone will have to modify the procedure to match. And if they decide to lock down the API such that it cannot be used other than by official Google software... then I'm stuck. Unfortunately it happens to be the best free speech recognition out there, and also one of the easiest. You don't have to teach it - it just seems to work and works very well so long as you have a good microphone. None of the open source packages come even close - in fact, the best one (CMU Sphinx) seems to require you to specify a dictionary of words to match against, which makes it useless when you want to say more than just a handful of words.
That's not entirely accurate. The other main version of Mint is called Linux Mint Debian, a Debian variant with a similar look and feel to the Ubuntu-based version, as well as having some enhancements like proper font anti-aliasing out of the box, but still being based on Debian as opposed to Ubuntu. This means that if Canonical goes batshit crazy (or crazier anyway) and makes enough decisions that are counter-productive to the future of the main Linux Mint edition, then the Mint guys can focus entirely on their Debian spin.
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Never mind the issue of companies using illegally obtained patches they haven't paid a support agreement for (except for perhaps China who don't give a shit), there's also the security issue of obtaining patches from someone other than direct from the vendor. Such a great opportunity to slip in your own code to do interesting things along with the actual patches.
Put it another way - I'd prefer it if Windows Updates were perhaps more verbose, so I'd know what they're actually doing that's taking so long. For all I know an update is taking too long because it's timed out and failed (which has occasionally happened). At least with Linux the longer updates print a fair amount of messages explaining if they're updating a cache or something.
It's kinda amazing how the idea having to call someone to basically beg for access to your operating system is seen as acceptable. People really are able to get used to any amount of bullshit it would seem, even if it's "rare". It's not as if it's necessary in the first place, what with Windows loaders being able to permanently activate anything up to and including Windows 8.1 with a single exe.
Depends on the hardware. In any case I've noticed that the .NET updates in Windows Update seem to always take the longest to complete out of all the various updates that can appear, so despite they hyperbole there is some truth to what he said.
Agreed. It's even worse when you realize just how many accessibility features exist in Windows - they've got almost everything, and you can expect them to work given there's high visibility of the operating system compared to most Linux distros. But of course people prefer to joke instead of accept the fact that Linux distros simply don't have the same level of support for accessibility features as seen in the proprietary systems, and that continual joking is why I don't bother with Linux for my own system anymore.
That might be a bonus side effect for Microsoft, but honestly, I think the primary purpose is to push for more Office 365 subscriptions. I mean it's pretty obvious, even my Microsoft's own reformation as a "devices and services" company in that they don't want to sell perpetually licensed software anymore. They want people to buy subscriptions now, and are pushing VERY hard for this. I wouldn't be surprised if the next main version of Office is subscription entirely like Adobe have done with their latest suite of software.
If people contribute money to something, of course they're gonna feel at least a bit entitled. Kickstarter is about investing your money into something that you feel is a good idea. Everyone will have their own values and priorities when investing. Some might not like the fact that Facebook is now going to own the company for various reasons which go against the reason they invested in the first place. Maybe they didn't want some big corp with no gaming focus owning the tech, who knows.
I have no personal investment one way or another. All I'm saying is that everyone has different reasons for wanting to invest, and it's understandable if someone who doesn't like Facebook sees a problem with them buying Oculus VR.
Do you really have to insult him to make your point?
Bitocin? Must be some offshoot of Bitcoin. Or the editors failed to "edit" anything and just want to be paid for sitting around, jacking off and hitting submit occasionally.
I actually use Google Speech for an application that I'm building. There's no official API for it, but what you can do is record speech to a FLAC file with specific parameters, pass said file to a particular URL via libcurl, and after a few seconds you'll get back info in JSON format which will provide the text of the recognition as well as a confidence level. It's really quite impressive.
The only downside of course is that if Google changes how its speech setup works, someone will have to modify the procedure to match. And if they decide to lock down the API such that it cannot be used other than by official Google software... then I'm stuck. Unfortunately it happens to be the best free speech recognition out there, and also one of the easiest. You don't have to teach it - it just seems to work and works very well so long as you have a good microphone. None of the open source packages come even close - in fact, the best one (CMU Sphinx) seems to require you to specify a dictionary of words to match against, which makes it useless when you want to say more than just a handful of words.
That's not entirely accurate. The other main version of Mint is called Linux Mint Debian, a Debian variant with a similar look and feel to the Ubuntu-based version, as well as having some enhancements like proper font anti-aliasing out of the box, but still being based on Debian as opposed to Ubuntu. This means that if Canonical goes batshit crazy (or crazier anyway) and makes enough decisions that are counter-productive to the future of the main Linux Mint edition, then the Mint guys can focus entirely on their Debian spin.